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As some of you may recall, back on February 4th I put up a post which began:
It’s February 4th, assholes. Do you still actually think the city garbage men are going to pick up your Christmas tree?
Why mention it again, lo these many months later? Yes, I’m afraid so:
Tags: adages, apathy, assholes, Christmas, ethics, Hanlon's razor, L.A., malapropisms, Ockham's razor, Sarah Palin, words, wtf?
Tags: advertising, beer, billboard, hypocrisy, sign
The mindset represented by this sign is what I mean when I refer to the Orange County city of Irvine as a soulless, planned-community hellscape. If I hadn’t spent 90% of my waking hours at the area’s one oasis of culture, the UCI Fine Arts village, I’d never have stayed there for four years.
Full disclosure: I took this picture in 1993, a little bit before the advent of the cameraphone. Still, I think any reasonable person will agree that it qualifies as a folly. This little roadside want ad stayed up for at least a week or two, which gave me plenty of time to remember to throw my camera in my bag before the next time I drove by.
Tags: (in)humanity, college, Irvine, Orange County, sign
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be stalkers. Especially if your babies are dumber than a box of rocks.
Via the L.A. Times:
A trial began this week in the case of a man accused of stalking and making threatening phone calls to a Huntington Beach police detective.
Brian Dopler, 27, is charged with felony criminal threats and stalking of the detective between Jan. 8 and Feb. 10, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.
Look, I understand that stalking isn’t exactly a logic-driven crime… but if you can’t at least pick your spots better than that, you really should get out less often. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cops, L.A. Times, news media, profanity, stalker, voicemail, Woody Allen
My friend Julie and her cohorts at LKG Productions are at it again. Their music video (embedded below) is in some kind of “who can get the most views” competition on atom.com. I hope I’m not posting it here too late to help them, because it’s funny and they deserve to win stuff. Even if I am too late, at least they still have an inside track to making my eventual “Best Web Videos of 2010″ list (which I’m sure means the world to them). Update»
Here are Julie Wittner, Ryan Smith, and Johnny Markoudakis in WWJD a Music Video, directed by Kim Evey.
Ms. Wittner and Ms. Evey may already be on your radar screen if you have notched any of the 25 million plus views of their giggle-inducing YouTube series 2 Hot Girls in the Shower. Yes, it does sound like pØ®n, but it doesn’t stray beyond PG-13 range. It will shortly take up residence here in the C&B blogroll.
Tags: blogroll, Christianity, comedy, consumerism, friends, guns, Jesus, music videos, religion, satire, YouTube
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Some of you may have noticed that comments on recent posts have gone missing. If you haven’t noticed, I sure as hell have. Posts since November 2009 that had comments still say that they do in the meta-link at the top of the post (e.g. “2 comments,” etc.), but those comments just don’t appear at [...]
As some of you may recall, back on February 4th I put up a post which began:
Why mention it again, lo these many months later? Yes, I’m afraid so:
Don’t say it.
But you-
Don’t even say it, because I know.
[in unison]
Oh my God, I thought you had quit blogging.
Oh my God, I thought you had quit blogging.
Told you I knew.
Of course you knew, we’re the same person. What, d’you think you’re cool because you can read your own mind?
A lot of the public doesn’t realize how sophisticated the [pharmaceutical industry's] marketing techniques have become, really over the last 10 years… Essentially when a pharmaceutical company gets FDA approval for a drug, their marketing department can assure their bosses that they are going to be able to sell the drug, really whether the drug [...]
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The Moving Target
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